Posted in HPC on Jul 5th, 2009
Perlbal from Djanga Interactive looks interesting. It’s a Perl-based reverse proxy load balancer and web server. It processes hundreds of millions of requests a day just for LiveJournal, Vox and TypePad and dozens of other “Web 2.0″ applications.
Zvolkov post a nice tutorial on using MemCached with nHibernate.
Greg Luck’s old performance comparison post still a nice overview of MemCached V EHCache performance.
Nice overview of Couchdb, Tyrant, [...]
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Posted in Grid Computing, HPC on May 21st, 2009
Memcached now has persistent queues via 0.6 of the Gearman C server and library. The persistent queue allows background jobs to be stored via the pluggable module, so if the job server crashes or is shutdown, the queue module can repopulate the job server with any jobs that were not yet complete.
Sun scale Memcached to 500K operations [...]
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Posted in Cloud Computing, Grid Computing, HPC on Apr 22nd, 2009
You can now buy the TheSavvyGuideTo HPC, Grid, DataGrid, Virtualisation and Cloud Computing on Amazon - http://tinyurl.com/cpavj2
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